Sounds crazy right??? But its very true! California Man, who disappeared in 1992, and was LEGALLY pronounced dead in 2000, resurfaces claiming he had ‘amnesia’. NY Daily News reports; A California man has three words for a New York judge who he says prematurely declared his demise: I’m not dead. Kwame Seku of San Diego says he is the former Winston Bright, a Verizon worker and married father of three missing for two decades and deemed deceased by a judge in 2000.

“My name is no longer Winston Bright. It is Kwame Seku,” the 65-year-old former East Village resident wrote in a letter this month to a Manhattan Surrogate’s Court judge. “And I am the same person.” He claims in court papers a DNA test he took in New York with his mother, Mary Bright, in December proves he is her very much alive son — and that he is entitled to Verizon benefits because he worked for the company for 20 years.

Verizon officials said they will follow the court order ruling Seku dead and continue paying survivor benefits to his wife, Leslie Bright. Bright, left with the kids, no money and too many questions all those years ago, promises to fight her husband. She went to Surrogate’s Court in 2000 seeking a judge’s ruling that Winston Bright was dead. That was eight years after Seku first showed up on public records in California.

Seku claims he has had amnesia for 20 years and adopted his new name while wandering the streets of California.

The amnesia story doesn’t fly with Bright, who says Seku just left home one day in 1992 and never returned. “He kissed me on the cheek, called me at lunchtime like he always did and again when he was on his way home,” she told the Daily News. “He never made it.”

Seku went to California and reinvented himself with an African name he picked out of a magazine because he liked the way it sounded. He earned a master’s degree, taught public school and worked with troubled boys, like he always wanted. But while Seku was living the dream, his family was falling apart. They lost their Stuyvesant Town apartment and moved into a public housing project.

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Kwame Seku — or is it Winston Bright? — alleges he’s entitled to Verizon benefit payments because he worked for the company for 20 years before he went missing, suffered amnesia and moved from New York to San Diego.

Leslie Bright doesn’t buy her husband’s story that he had amnesia. Winston Bright never came home in 1992 and in 2000 she had him declared dead. The man, now called Kwame Seku, has come back and wants the survivor benefits his employer, Verizon, has been paying to his wife.

Shown on their 1970 wedding day is Leslie Bright and Kwame Seku — back when he was known as Winston Bright.

Leslie Bright is joined in her E. 10th St. apartment by her grandchildren, from left: Ciara, 10, Unitus, 14, and Ethan, 3. Their biological grandpa is Winston Bright, who was declared dead after he went missing two decades ago but is now back in New York as Kwame Seku. Photo By: SAM COSTANZA FOR NEW YORK DAILY NEWS